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your Father Augustus Griffin.
GRIFFIN'S JOURNAL.
First Settlers of Sonthold ;
THE NAMES OF THE HEADS OF THOSE FAMILIES,
Being only thirteen at the time of their lauding ;
FIRST PROPRIETORS OF ORIENT;
Biographical Sketches,
&c. &c. &c.
BY AUGUSTUS GRIFFIN.
Orient, £. 3. PUBLISHED BY AUGUSTUS GRIFFIN. 1857.
F 129 9768
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by AUGUSTUS GRIFFIN,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern: District of New York.
C. A. ALVORD, PRINTER
No. 15 VANDRWATER STREET N. Y.
Dedication.
To my Son, Sidney L. Griffin ; and good friend, Nathaniel T. Hubbard, Esq.
Having had it in contemplation for some years to leave to posterity some memorial of its ancestry in this my native town; and having, with much labor, collected many facts and incidents together for the purpose of publication, unvarnished as they are; and being near the end of my earthly sojourn, I now submit them to the public.
It has pleased my Creator to prolong my life beyond the ordinary age of man ;* and this favor I interpreted as a design of His will that I should live to see my de- sire, respecting this work, fulfilled. To you, my son, and to you, my excellent friend and nephew, by per- mission, I dedicate this production, the fruit of many days of anxious toil and research. It is but an inade-
* In my ninety first year.
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quate return for your marked attentions and numerous expressions of friendship. And may that Power who has preserved me so long, and surrounded me with so many blessings, attend us to that world that knows no change or sorrow, but peace and love forever more.
AUGUSTUS GRIFFIN.
Orient, January, 1857.
Preface.
The statistics collected in this biographical and chro- nological history, is the work of our aged inhabitant of Southold, now living, well known for his literary tastes and indefatigable application to the subject. It is an invaluable repository of facts, connected with the early settlement, character, and actions of our ancestors. The descendents of those ancestors are inhabitants of every section of the country, and it is natural they should trace their lineage to the graves of their fathers. It is incumbent on us, therefore, who live around them, to preserve the record of the facts in our possession for future reference, as evidence of their nativity. To fu- ture generations, this sketch must be most acceptable and gratifying. It abounds with anecdote, incident, and narrative, enlivening the tediousness of genealo- gous detail with many interesting and pertinent descrip- tions, more valuable to the native, but not the less
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agreeable to the general reader. The volume may not possess the fascination of fiction or the gravity of pole- mics ; but more than these, it appeals to that earnest desire, which every one possesses, of knowing the his- tory of his origin, and the vicissitudes of his race.
JOHN O. TERRY.
Orient, December, 1856.
Contents.
A
PAGE.
PAGE.
Brewster Anna,
192.
Akerly Robert,
15, 16.
Beebee Joseph & family, 200
Arnold Isaac,
do.
Boiseau Jean, 205.
Adams Rev. Mr.,
39
Browns Israel, &c., 208
Anderson Rev. Mr.,
41.
Brown John,
224.
Amerman, Rev. Mr.,
56.
Booth, family,
226.
Auction at Sterling,
51.
Beebee Daniel,
239
Arnot, Dr. D. R.,
169.
Brown Robt.,
241.
Aldridge Ezekiel,
216.
do. Edwin P.,
do.
Anecdote, Baptist minister,
257.
C
B
Corwin Matthias, 15, 16, 225.
Budd John Sr.,
15, 16.
Corey Jacob, 16.
Brown Richard Sr.,
19.
Conkline John, 16, 238. 40
do. Israel,
19.
Cook Rev. Mr.,
do.
do: Joseph,
19.
Cram Rev. Mr,, do.
do. Richard Jr.,
20.
Clark Rev Mr., 43
Beebee Noah G.,
20
Church Methodist,
53
Barber Rev. Mr.,
37.
Christmas Storm, 1811,
154.
Beers Rev. Mr., 43.
Chase Frederick,
175
Blakeman Rev. Mr.,
43.
Champlin George, 183
Booth Constant Jr.,
52. Corwin Mrs. John, 185.
Bouton Rev M.,
57. Clergymen of Upper Aque-
Brown Hannah,
135.
bogue, 199.
do. Samuel, 19.
Caddle Rev. Mr.,
10
CONTENTS.
PAGK.
Case Col. Benjamin,
206.
Griffin Samuel and others,
114 to 116. "
do. Peter, 125.
Gillet Rev. Elisha, 102.
Goldsmith Zacheus, 114.
Gardiner Dr. John,
127.
D
Griffin Daniel & Brothers.
168
Davenport Rev. Mr., 40.
Dickerson Rev. Mr ,
41.
Griffin Amon T.,
186
Deverel Rev. Mr.,
do.
Griswold Wareham,
203.
Dyer Caleb,
240.
Glover family,
217, 218,
Goldsmith Jos. H . 233. do. Addison. do.
Gardner Lion, 242.
Edwards Lewis A., 20, 238.
" Enterprise" Schooner, 239.
Fisher's Island. 33.
Foster Rev. Mr .. 40
Finnegan Rev. Mr ..
54.
Foss, Rev. Mr ,
55.
Friendship,
155.
Hill Rev. Mr.,
57.
Fanning Edmond,
206.
Franklin Dr. at Southold
228.
G
Gardiner's Island.
15.
Glover Samuel,
28.
do. Grover,
29.
Gull's Islands, 33.
Ground for Church, 37.
Hobart Rev. Peter & family, 201.
Horlow Robert, 224.
House, first meeting in South-
Greenport, 53.
Griffin Augustus,
67.
do. Jasper & others 84 to 101, inclusive,
Horton Barnabas,
15, 16.
Hallock Peter, 17
Haynes Rev. Mr., 41.
Henson, Rev. Mr., 56.
Hollis, Rev. Mr., do.
How Rev. Mr., do,
Havens Dr. Jonathan. do.
do. Gabriel, do.
147
Horton Silas, do. Bethia, 152.
Howell Jonathan,
157.
Hill, Ithuel,
167.
Hubbard Mrs. Harriet M., 180:
Horton Johathan G., 192, 229.
old 259.
Hubbard family, 234.
Clark Dr. Joshua,
207.
do. John,
217.
Case Moses,
236.
Carl Silas,
244.
do. Joseph, 170.
Genin John N.,
183.
PAGE.
Gamage, Rev. Mr., 43.
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King John, 19, 22, 26, 30, 103.
do.
William,
30.
do. Rev. Saml. W., 53.
Ordnance,
50.
do.
Benjamin Jr.,
132,
Osborne, Rev. Mr., 56.
do.
Edward C.,
do.
do.
Benjamin,
133.
Old Burying ground, Orient, 187.
P
Peter's Neck, 24.
Pathway or lane to the Harbor 25.
Plumb Island, a rock on, 32.
Payne Pears,
34
Porter, Rev. Mr.,
42.
L
Latham Jonathan F.
34.
Lee Rev. Mr.,
39.
Lucky Rev. Mr.,
56.
Petty Family, 219.
Lester Thomas S.,
113.
Paine John, 224.
Prince James and John 233.
MI
Mapes Thomas, 15, 16.
Mulford Elisha.
28, 237.
Moore Thomas Sr.,
28, 215.
Ist Meeting House,
38
Racket Noah, 128.
2nd do.
43.
do. Deacon John and
3d do.
44.
family, 128 to 130.
Rudd Rev. John C., 195.
Reeve Family, 195.
Southampton, 15.
Southold, 16.
Smith Rev. Mr., 41.
Snow Storm, 47.
do. Families in 1700, 35.
do. .. do 1752, 36.
do. do. 1855, 45.
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Robertson Rev. Mr., 42.
Rawson Rev. Mr., 56.
Ist Mill at Orient, 134,
Moore Abigail, 138.
do. John,
215.
do. Usher H.,
226.
PAGE.
Oysterponds residents of 90 years old, 45.
Overton Rev. Mr., 40.
Overton Isaac, 153.
do. Joseph,
148.
do. Abner, 150.
do. Frederick,
151.
do. John Sr. & family,
216.
do. Henry,
223.
do. Elisha,
224.
Portrait of my wife, 192
Partridge Asa, 203.
Peterson Mrs. Emma, 205.
Penny Wid. Esther, 208,
Oysterponds, 18, 31.
Shaw Richard, 49
Sing Rev. Mr., 56.
September, Storm, 1815, 160.
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Sickness at Orient, 1849, 177,
Sweezy Rev. Moses, 198.
Sigourney Mrs. L. H.,
204.
Seaman John, 243.
T
Tuthill John Sr., 15, 16, 19, 21, 58.
do." John Jr., 21, 59.
Terry Richard, 16, 213.
Tuthill Peter V.,
22.
do.
Jeremiah,
26.
Tibbals Rev., Mr., 57.
Tuthill John 3d, 60.
do. do. 4th, 62.
do.
Samuel,
63.
do.
James,
do.
do.
Nathaniel Sr.,
65, 234.
do.
Mary,
66.
Terry Jonathan,
101, 116, 239.
do. Daniel T., 121.
do. Noah, 118.
do. Thomas, 120, 225.
Tuthill Noah, 111.
do. Adjutant Daniel, 113.
do. Henry 3d of John Jr., 163. Townsend Deborah, 141.
Tabor Amon, 143.
do. Frederick, 147.
Tuthill, Judge W. H., 164.
Terry John O., . 165.
Tuthill Rufus,
172.
do. Capt. Rufus, 200.
Terry Samuel H., 205.
do. Joseph Jr., 214,
do. David, 224.
Tuthill Ira,
231.
do. Matthew,
238.
Thompson B. F., 247.
PAGE.
Vail Jeremiah Jr., 28.
do.
do.
3d,
29.
do.
. do.
3th,
29.
do. Jeremiah Sr. 30, 218,220,232.
do. Stephen Sr., 156.
do. Dr. Thomas,
104.
Vail Silas,
173.
do. Elizabeth, 193.
W
Well, William Esq.,
15, 16.
Wooster Gen., 21.
Wharf,
49.
Webb David,
Whitfield Rev. Mr., 52.
Webb Rev. Mr., 57.
Webb Orange Sr., 110.
do. David,
124.
do. Silas,
do.
Wiggins Family, 130.
Wells, Harriet L., 164.
Woodhull John,
171.
Women Physicians in South- old, 180.
Wells John C., 184.
Wickham Family, 222.
Washington at Sterling, 227. Wells Rev. Timothy 230.
do. Benjamin 242.
I
Youngs Jonathan Jr.,
158.
do. Henry, 160.
do.
Jeremiah,
190.
do. Rev. Daniel, 197.
do. Rev. John &c., 211.
JOURNAL.
A company, consisting of thirteen men, with their families, left their mother country (old England) about the year 1638, for the newly-discovered World, known as America. After a passage of some weeks, they ar- rived at New Haven, then a small village in the then colony of Connecticut. At this place they stopped un- til early in the autumn of 1640, having made their stay there about two years. Until this last date they had not fully decided where to make their permanent abode, or settle themselves and families for life. They now all agreed to charter a vessel and embark on board, with their families, effects, and provisions sufficient to carry them through the then coming winter. All things ready, the sails were hoisted, with a propitious breeze. They requested the captain to direct his course for the east end of Long Island. After sailing about forty miles, they rounded the point which terminates the northeast branch of this island, then directing their course south- erly about five miles, to what is now known as Long Beach Point ; doubling this point, they steered west about two miles to Shelter Island Ferry. Now the
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course was southwest, to a harbor or bay about six miles farther, now known as Southold. Here they cast anchor near the shore, on which they could see a number of natives, whose movements betokened much curiosity and amazement.
After returning thanks to the Great Disposer of all things for his goodness in aiding them in a safe pas- sage to this new and uncivilized place, several of them entered the long boat and rowed for the shore. As they rowed with their backs towards the shore, the na- tives, who awaited their landing, appeared astonished to see men coming towards them backwards. They were received with tokens of friendship. Tradition says that the first man of these bold adventurers to set his foot on the shores of this town, was a Mr. Peter Hallock. This, however, it is said, was accorded him by lot. The place where he stepped on the beach is, to this day-1856-(two hundred and sixteen years since) pointed out, and called Hallock's Landing. It is some seventy rods southwest to the foot of land af- terwards owned by the Hon. Ezra Lhommedieu. South- west of said spot, along the beach, about sixty rods far- ther, is a creek called Town Creek, which you can cross at low water to Hogneck.
After they had all safely landed and cultivated apeace- able intercourse with the astonished natives, they set about looking for a suitable site whereon to erect booths, or tents, to protect their wives and children from the storms and tempests of the coming winter. The lot which they selected was about eighty rods west from where they landed-it is now owned by the parish or town of Southold-on which is a house where the poor
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are kept, and, we hope, are well attended to. There is still remains of holes in the earth pointed out where these first settlers kept their provisions from the frost.
The names of these adventurers to this new region with their households, were :- 1st. Rev. John Youngs ; 2d. Barnabas Horton; 3d. William Wells, Esq .; 4th. Peter Hallock; 5th. John Tuthill; 6th. Richard Terry; 7th. Thomas Mapes; Sth. Matthias Corwin; 9th. Ro- bert Akerly ; 10th. Jacob Corcy; 11th. John Conkline; 12th. Isaac Arnold; 13th. John Budd.Twelve of these had their wives and children with them-Peter Hallock's wife and children were at the time in Eu- rope.
These men, with their families, were the first of any civilized nation that had made the attempt to settle on the cast end of Long Island. This took place in the early part of September, 1640. Southampton was set- tled in the November following. Gardiner's Island was purchased of the natives the year previous-viz : 1639 -by Lion Gardiner, who, at the time, was a lieutenant in a fort then at Saybrook, Connecticut.
As winter was approaching, as far as their means would admit, every laudable effort to meet and endure it with composure and resignation as Christians and pilgrims, were made use of. The Rev. John Youngs cheerfully shared with them every privation and diffi- culty allotted to this his charge. The greater part, or all the heads of these families, were members of his church in Hingham, England, which is about one hun- dred miles from London ; there he had been a minister some years previous to his coming to this New World.
By the opening of spring they had formed a friendly
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intercourse with the natives, purchased land on which to erect suitable booths for their present residences, and commenced, as would seem, a revolution in their event- ful career in life. These families, it appears, for the first year or so, settled down within the bounds of the present town of Southold. Rev. John Youngs, their worthy pastor, continued in their midst to dispense the word of life. Barnabas Horton's first tenement was erected near or on the site where his descendant, Jonathan G. Horton, now lives, he being the sixth ge- neration. William Wells, a lawyer, located on the land part of which is now occupied by his descendant of the seventh generation, William HI. Wells. John Tuthill, in the course of a year or so, went cast some nine miles, to what was afterwards called Oysterponds-now, Orient. Two of his sons afterwards settled at Cutcho- gue; Richard Terry, located near where Mr. Cady now lives ; Thomas Mapes, a little west of the meeting house ; Matthias Corwin, on the north side of the road, on lands now owned by the heirs of the late Lazarus Gen- ning; Robert Akerly purchased where Win. C. Coch- ran now resides; Jacob Corey, on the land now owned by the heirs of the late Dr. Micah Moore; John Conk- line, a little to the east of Corey ; Isaac Arnold, just east of Conkline; John Budd near where Moses C. Cleveland owns and resides.
As they had now formed themselves into a society, it was deemed proper to give a name to the place chosen for their residence. The majority were for naming it " Southold ;" and so it was set down, and so it yet remains. Its Indian name was Toyong.
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There is a place in England-about one hundred miles from London-called Southwold, and it is thought some of these families came from that village or town, and so recommended the name, which has continued in favor over two hundred years.
Mr. Peter Hallock, as before noticed, was the first to set foot on the shores of this town. His family was not with him ; he had left them in Europe, living near London-viz: a wife and two step-daughters. Mr. Hallock continued at Southold not more than a year. Some suppose that Oyster Ponds was not visited by any of these first men to Southold under two or more years ; but I am fully of the opinion, after my investigations, and as Mr. Hallock was situated, that he went to Oysterponds the next year after his arrival at Couthold. As it was, Mr. Hallock traveled east to a neck of land, called by the Indians who possessed it, Pequatuch, nine miles. This isolated spot-then a forest-appeared to Mr. Hallock as most delightful. Its locality, situation, and many natural advantages, rendered it an object of interest to purchase. He soon concluded & bargain with its native owners for the entire neck, and, as he conceived, a safe and good one. He nowichaacd to Southold, arranged his affairs, and cet & by the way of New York for Europe, where he met his : ace family, well, and greatly rejoiced to once more orice him.
Mr. Hallock while with his frilly in Mope, gave a picturesque description of the parcheco bol J =: de previous to his leaving the New World. A piece of 2*
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land on the extreme east and north part of a beautiful island ; said piece of land containing about two thou- sand acres, with its bays, beaches, &c., &c. This de- lightful neck of land he informed Mrs. Hallock should be a present to her two daughters, if she and they would accompany him to America. Whether they were some time making up their minds we know not, but tradi- tion says his stay was rather long in England, and as it has been said, " procrastination is the thief of time," in this case Mr. Hallock found it so to his sad disap- pointment.
At his return to take possession of hisinvaluable selec- tion, lo ! to his sorrow, it had been conveyed away, and actually taken possession of by Tuthill, Youngs, and others.
It does not appear after this transaction of Mr. Hal- lock, from any information or record that I have found, that he was the purchaser or owner of any lands or tenements in Oysterponds. It is believed he subse- quently settled some twenty miles west of the village of Southold, near what is now called Acquebogue, where there is now many of his descendants living.
Mr. Thompson in his excellent history of Long Island, says Oysterponds was purchased of the natives about 1646, six years after the first settlement of Southold. If this was so, and Hallock went home to England after this, his bargain, and was absent two or more years, as tradition informs us, it is not much to be wondered at that the Indians were so doubtful of his return as to make a second conveyance of their beautiful neck of land.
From the above circumstances relating to Oyster-
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ponds, as tothe time of its settlement, I should suppose that John Tuthill, with the Rev. John Youngs, or his son John, junior, (at the time, 1650,) twenty-five or more years old, came down to Oysterponds, and with a Mr. John King, Israel and Richard Brown, bought all the west part of said land, from the east part of what is now called Truman's Beach, to the east bounds of what is called the Manor and Parsonage, with the late Captain Christopher Brown's farm to the bay, making the east line ot this first purchase, beginning at the bay and running about a north course to the Sound.
Now, it is as well ascertained as perhaps it ever can be, and I am satisfied from the strictest researches I have made, that after Peter Hallock's first visit to Oysterponds, in 1641, (Pequatuck, as the natives called it,) John Tuthill, John Youngs, Jr., Israel Brown, Richard Brown, Samuel Brown, and John King, were the first six men to settle in this place with their fami- lies, and the first owners of its lands from the natives.
From our fathers fathers, we are informed that the first rude dwelling built on this peninsula, or neck of land, was put up on the south side of the road, a rod or two west of where Israel or his son Joseph Brown some years after, built a good sized house on the north side of the road. This last house was built about the year 1670. About the year 1829 it was taken down and a small one erected instead, on the same site. When taken down it must have stood more than one hundred and fifty years. It was situated about one-third of a mile east of the foot of Truman's Beach.
This house, as I have noticed, was near the spot opposite where the first rude hut or shelter from the
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inclemency of the weather for civilized man, in this place was put up. That, as said, was on the south side of the road, where there yet remains the sign of a well, which, no doubt, was dug by those first civilized set- tlers about the year 1645 or 1646. In 1782 or 1783, this property passed out of the Brown family, who had been its owners since 1646 or 1647, or near that date, being about 130 years.
The next house was cast of Joseph Brown's some forty rods, built by Samuel Brown. It stood on or near the spot where William T. Conkline has erected a barn. This house was burned down not far from 1730. A little west of this another was soon erected, which is yet standing, owned by Andrew Jackson Racket.
About twenty rods east of Samuel's house, Richard Brown with his son Richard Brown, Jr., built them- selves a large double dwelling. When this house was repaired with an addition, there was a vane to show the point of the wind, at the time put up on the peak of the roof, marking the date of the repairing of said house and the year the vane was put up, viz. : 1691. It reads the same up or down. This house stood about one hundred and fifty years, when it was taken down, and on its site Noah G. Beebe in 1837 erected a handsome two story single house. This venerable old homestead went out of the Brown family in 1829, or near that date, when Mr. Noah G. Beebe purchased it. Mr. Beebe died in the autumn of 1849. His widow, Mrs. Charlotte Beebe, sold it in 1852 to Mr. Lewis A. Edwards, in whose pos- session it now remains. In the winter of 1855 and 1856 Mr. Edwards sold the Beebe house to Dr. E. E. Skin-
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ner, who moved it to Greenport. Mr. Edwards has built a superb mansion house near where the Beebe house stood, perhaps the largest and most expensive in this county.
The next house east, about twenty-five rods distant, was erected by John Tuthill, Jr., or more likely by his father, John Tuthill, Sr., who at the time when this house was put up, in about 1666, was near seventy years old, and his son John T., Jr., about thirty years old, who came in possession of it at his father's death. The father, John Tuthill, Sr., with the Browns, Youngs, and Kings, made his choice of this location for his stop- ping place. Where this ancestor of all the Tuthills in this and the neighboring towns died, and his age, at the time of his death, no one can inforin us.
It is very reasonable to suppose he occupied this house while he lived, and after him his son John, Jr., who died in 1717, aged eighty-two years. At this period Henry Tuthill, Sr., grandson of John Tuthill, Jr., was fifty-two years of age. The house, it is believed, was the oldest frame one in this place. It was double, with two small front rooms, a narrow entry between them, a story and a half high, near thirty feet front and twenty-three fect rear; the roof the steepest I ever knew. In this antique house Henry Tuthill, Jr., died at the age of about eighty-five. This took place while General David Wooster with his brigade was stationed at Oysterponds, in the summer of 1775. This old relic of ancient days was moved off the premises, converted into a barn, in or near 1800, and about 1822 taken down, having stood one hundred and sixty or more
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years. Peter V. Tuthill now owns and occupies the lands of this old homestead. He is the seventh genera- tion from John Tuthill, the first proprietor.
John King, who had purchased the lands adjoining John Tuthill's east line, built for himself and his son Samuel a house, about twenty five rods east of said Tut- hill's. His and Tuthill's were of similar draft and con- struction-roofs steep to a fault. These five houses were all built between the years 1660 and 1690. As these men with their families came to this place and settled on these locations, some fifteen or twenty years earlier than those dates, they must have had some kind of tenements to dwell in previous to having put up their more comfortable situations ; but what they were we are not informed. When these first fathers came to Southold their average age was about forty years, which would make them at the time of constructing those residences near three score and ten years of age. As we have observed, John Tuthill, Jr. assisted in taking an interest with his father, so it must have been with the Browns, Kings, and Youngs. As has been said of Brown's homestead, so likewise hath the place of John King gone out of his name. His house which was built about 1670 was taken down in 1816, on the site of which David Tuthill erected a low double house. This last one has been enlarged and raised to that of a two story, much unlike those antique, odd constructed abodes of our honest, good hearted fathers of blessed memory. The beams of those venerable houses were mostly of white oak, and many of them more than twelve and sixteen inches square. They
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were handsomely planed and beaded. Some suppose it must have been a task to raise them, as the place was thinly settled. However we see they were built and finished in a substantial way and stood, notwith- standing the piercing winter storms of more than seven score winters.
Gideon Youngs, who settled in this place with the Browns, Tuthills and John King, was the third son of Rev. John Youngs, who made one of the thirteen fami- lies that first landed at Southold. He was born about 1635. ITis brother John, who was afterwards a Colonel, High Sheriff of all Long Island, then called Nassau, and a Judge, with his reverend father, made the pur- chase of the large farm of which Gideon came in pos- session about the year 1658 and erected his house on the premises about the time the Browns, Tuthills, and John King built theirs, before mentioned. Colonel John Youngs was the oldest son and born about 1623, and at the settlement of Oysterponds was twenty-seven years of age. The Colonel in consequence of his high offices and public business, stopped but little with his family in Oysterponds, although concerned with his father and brothers in the purchase of much land in the place.
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